Sunset Birding at the Meadows - Friday, September 21st, 2012

Nice array of ducks, and a few shore birds and waders. A few warblers including Common Yellowthroat, Yellow and Palm. Highlight was the 40 (plus or minus) Common Nighthawks overhead at dusk. Leaders: Karl Lukens, Chuck & Mary Jane Slugg, Kathy Horn, Warren Cairo, Elizabeth Errickson, and Alyssia Church.
39 species

Canada Goose  50
Mute Swan  8
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  10
Northern Shoveler  3
Green-winged Teal  6
Pied-billed Grebe  2
Great Egret  3
Snowy Egret  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Osprey  2
Willet  1     * inornata (Western)
Sanderling  25
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
Dunlin  3
Wilson's Snipe  2
Laughing Gull  50
Ring-billed Gull  3
Herring Gull  10
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  8
Common Tern  20
Forster's Tern  20
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  20
Mourning Dove  4
Common Nighthawk  40
Merlin  3
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  100
Common Yellowthroat  2
American Redstart  2
Yellow Warbler  2
Palm Warbler  10
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  2
House Sparrow  2

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